This is fascinating

if a bit difficult for us non-STEM types to follow: Scientists can store light as sound moving us “[o]ne step closer to computers that process data at the speed of light.” According to Fiona MacDonald, Science Alert, storing “light-based information as sound waves on a computer chip…is critical if we ever want to shift from our current, inefficient electronic computers, to light-based computers that move data at the speed of light.”

And then our artificially intelligent robots can enslave us faster.

Still, the piece is interesting. Click the first link to read the whole thing.